Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-04
NEW YORK LETTER.
4 YAsHroxAsLE pocroR AID HIS
NUMEROUS pArrEsrs
Yhs Advantages Of q Southern rrip-rhe
Bsekst-shops Big Profits
The Tricks.



one Of the most famous specialists on
throat diseases"
"Do you care il / 60 and consnlI
him 2"
"Not rap. Use my name. I studied
with him four years.
hurried down TO the house OF ply
sician, whose name had been familiar "a
me for years. II was about III o'clock.
/ found fully hundred people there IN
q long suite of rooms. The attendant
gave me a check numbered 122, and
fell to figuring mp the doctors daily In,
come at $40 n patient for the first visit
and IS thereafter. After had allowed
him a mere average Of thousand dol
lars a day removed my rubber coat,
fur coat. neckerchief, galosheS, gloves,
and so on, and settled myself in an easy
chair, while the other patients stared al
me triumphantly as they sncezed,
coughed, and sighed. Presently two Oh
three moro unfortunates driited in from
tho street and storm, and j went fast
asleep.
IL was nearly o'clock when / walked
up and found that my turn had about
arrived. After time the attendant mo-
toned to me and went into a big office.
A well-built, sturdy, and strong-featured
man stepped toward me and said shortly
after stor ping for moment TO sneeze
"Throat
"Awiul," ! said.
Chow long has il bothered you ?"
"Contirual succession OF colds FOL
two months"
He glanced at the throat half care
lessly, went over and turned on more
heat, and then said CURLY:
"When can you go South-to-morrow
morning?"
Wh-whAt?"
"To-morrow ?"
"Why | never thought of leaving
town at this season of the year"
"Well," he continued, rising on his
toes and letting himself gently down
again, sits the only thing for you to do
i might tell you TO come here every day
but cannot do you bit Of good at thu
time OF the year. If you can go South
90 at once (; your case is precisely SINH
lar TO thousand I've recently had. The
fee is $40. GOOD morning.
He touched a bell, the next unfortu
nate entered, and l went forth. Within
an hour had sent TO Secretary Bayard
for passport and had bought my ticket
for Havana on big and snowy steamer,
The passport was forwarded from Wash
ington to Cuba by mail. 1t cost So
little, and by no means a credltablt
scheme Of our Government TO collect Q
revenue from such OF its citizens as visit
Cuba. No other Government exact:
such tax from its people.
When the steamer sailed from New
York that day storm-signals were flying
and the forerunner of a hurricane had
already arrived. The water was lumpy,
and the captain remarked to me conf
dentially when we were off Sandy Hook
that we were going to have about as
nasty a night as possible. All the
women were deathly sick before we bad
been three hours out, and most Of the
men were in their berths, but four of us
managed to make o. a game OF whist
in the smoking-room, and we played
there until midnight, when the pitching
of the steamer made it impossible to
keep on q seat. 1t was as curiously in
congruous party as ever joined. One
man was an EnglishInan of title--a bar
onet-who had married a CHILEAN heires'
and was on his way to take her TO Eng
land from Havana another most &C.
complished and agreeable Japanese trav
cling for pleasure and attended by 4
huge negro servant, and the third Chi
caco gambler who had once broken 6
baccar at bank in Paris to the tune o.
s36, 900. He spoke French and Spanish
like native. We became well acqualnt
ed, as men are apt to over card table OF
shipboard. When we arrived at Ha
vana we had dinner at capital res
taurant and parted, never in all likeli
hood to meet again.
ADVANTAGES OF THE TRIP.
/ have detailed my experience with tn
doctors above merely 20 illustrate the ex
traordinary advantage OF southern trip
IL doesn't make any difference whethe
YOU go by rail or sea as long asyou mov'
toward the equator. The second ola.
out forgot all about my ailments ant
was in as complete and perfect trim as
prize athlete. The relief, the sensation
of absolute health, and the absence OF al
the evidences of the colds that had cos
me 30 much misery and money in Ne'
York made me feel like school-boy o.
holiday. There's no patent medicin
that equals the soft air of the South afte
the rasping blizzards Of the norther
States
Havana is the most extraordinary tow
il, the world. Though 1t Is so nea
America it is no more like it in the mos
minute particular than Tunis, Algieri
or Morocco. The whole island is riddle
by an army OF Spaniards. Military un
forms are three TO one civilian dress
the streets, and the Spanish commander
are sucking the life's blood out OF tn
most beautiful island in the West Indies
A more brutal, heartless, and inhuma
set OF rulers never lived. Cuba is tn
only western possession that Spain no.
holds, and she is taxing it to the yer
limit Cuba pays Spain the enormou
sum OF S24, 600 for the support
the great Spanish army that keeps he
In bondage. II man wishes to keep
billiard~tsble he must pay tax OF 500
year in gold pictures that hang
houses are taxed, and the landlord pay
10 much 10 the Government for ever
guest who enters his hotel. 1t is not
bs wondered at that the danger OF an IL
surrection keeps Spain busy pouring SO
iiers into this little island. The last II
surrection cost nearly 800, 600 lives, an
everybody here knows that there is dal
GER OF another one at almost any time.
ran down into the interior OF the islam
a few days after my arrival toward Ciel
fuegos. In every railroad-car there Wei
from ten TO twenty soldiers; at ever
station file OF thirty soldiers receive
the tnlin and inspected the passengel
who alighted, and all along ii
roads were military detachmets. ID
spite this tremendous display
Of power the people have secret organ
zations, and rural Cuba ia believed to |
secretly under arms There is no bin
OF il In the papers for the very good rei
son that there is a press censor. An,
thing approaching an accurate descTil
ton Of the condition of things in the il
terror in Cuban paper would put an al
rupt end 10 the editors liberty. Ever
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